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Old Masters

A Comedy
Suhrkamp | Insel
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Old Masters / Werke in 22 Bänden
A Comedy

Old Masters is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.


For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher has been summoned to meet him, and through his eyes we learn more about Reger - the tragic death of...

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Old Masters is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.


For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher has been summoned to meet him, and through his eyes we learn more about Reger - the tragic death of his wife, his thoughts of suicide and, eventually, the true purpose of their appointment. At once pessimistic and exuberant, rancorous and hilarious, Old Masters is a richly satirical portrait of culture, genius, nationhood, class, the value of art and the pretensions of humanity. (book description of the UK edition published by Penguin)

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Thomas Bernhard was born in Heerlen, the Netherlands, in 1931 and died in Gmunden, Austria, in 1989. He is one of the most important Austrian writers and was awarded the Büchner Prize (1970) and the Grimme Prize (1972), among many other accolades. Suhrkamp Verlag is in the process of publishing Thomas Bernhard's collected works in 22 volumes.

Thomas Bernhard was born in Heerlen, the Netherlands, in 1931 and died in Gmunden, Austria, in 1989. He is one of the most important Austrian...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The Public Bernhard
Year of Publication: 2014
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 2014
This edition presents the first comprehensive collection of all texts that Thomas Bernhard wrote for publication in the media between 1950 and 1989 – from his court reports from Salzburg in the fifties to the tirades against God and the rest of the world published in the sixties and seventies, to the interviews about his play Heldenplatz conducted shortly before his death.


On the Trail of the Truth
Year of Publication: 2010
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 2010
Thomas Bernhard and the public sphere: scarcely a single utterance that didn’t provoke a scandal. This volume presents a selection of Bernhard’s most important pieces of journalism, letters...
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Goethe Dies
Year of Publication: 2010
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 2010
Thomas Bernhard did not live to see these stories published in book-form: he was too preoccupied with his monumental novel Extinction and the play Heldenplatz and the ensuing...
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My Prizes
Year of Publication: 2009
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 2009
This hitherto unpublished comedic work shows Bernhard at the very top of his art: invective, flabbergasted, swearing and ridiculing. Thomas Bernhard quarrels with the world in general, the...
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The Correspondence
Year of Publication: 2009
Thomas Bernhard, Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2009
»If anyone has been hoping for just one last undiscovered drama by Thomas Bernhard, here it is. Its title is Correspondence, its birth spanning from 1961 to Bernhard's death in...
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A Meeting
Year of Publication: 2006
Thomas Bernhard, Krista FleischmannYear of Publication: 2006

Thomas Bernhard rarely agreed to interviews in front of a camera. He did, however, appreciate the television journalist Krista Fleischmann as a sensitive interlocutor, with whom he produced two...

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Extinction
Year of Publication: 1986
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1986
Extinction is the title of an account that Franz-Josef Murau wrote during the last year of his life in Rome and that Thomas Bernhard made public. These notes were absolutely essential to...
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Woodcutters
Year of Publication: 1984
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1984
Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and »reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg« (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s...
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The Loser
Year of Publication: 1983
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1983
»Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his...
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Wittgenstein’s Nephew
Year of Publication: 1982
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1982
With this work on the history of a friendship, published in 1982, Bernhard offers an autobiography, describing his childhood and youth in five volumes as well as his life between the years 1967 and...
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Concrete
Year of Publication: 1982
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1982
»Instead of the book he is meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and...
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The Cheap-Eaters
Year of Publication: 1980
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1980

For years, the four cheap-eaters have been eating at a certain Viennese public kitchen, from Monday to Friday, always the cheapest meals. They become the focus of Koller’s scientific attention...

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Yes
Year of Publication: 1978
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1978

»Yes«, answers the Persian woman, the protagonist of Thomas Bernhard’s novel published in 1978, to the narrator’s question of whether is going to kill herself one day – and laughs.


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Correction
Year of Publication: 1975
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1975
»A body,« according to Correction, first published in German in 1975, »needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.« The...
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Walking
Year of Publication: 1971
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1971

»A powerful, compact novella, Walking provides a perfect introduction to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard, showing a preoccupation with themes —...

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The Lime Works
Year of Publication: 1970
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1970
For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he’s conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of...
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Gargoyles
Year of Publication: 1967
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1967
»The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany....
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Frost
Year of Publication: 1963
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1963
A young medical student accepts an assignment to monitor the painter Strauch who has withdrawn to the mountain village of Weng. He dutifully records Strauch’s monologues and visions in his notes...
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Thomas Bernhard would have celebrated his 90th birthday on February 9, 2021.